[Slow Ben]

Huzzah! found my first Legendary.

Level 14



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It throws like a grenade to reload like all Tediores, except it fires while flying through the air and actually tracks enemies.

[amphibian]

 Aptorius, on 24 September 2012 - 04:14 PM, said:

This game really is about broken people.

Yes. I've only played the first one and all the DLCs, but this is exactly right. Every single person in this gameworld is broken - including you, the silent protagonist - and it becomes endearing as they find ways to live in spite of being broken. Some withdraw to become hermits and befriend mutants/aliens. Most stay in near-hermitage or mine for goodies so they can get by and/or get rich. Others go full "Blood for the Blood God" and get into arena fighting and whatnot. And the soldiers get religion through the military.

It's very much like the Portal series.

[Aptorian]

While the game is funny and crazy and doesn't take itself too seriously, I am not sure the material is suitable for a 5 year old. There are stories of rape, torture and grizzly death every where. The protagonist as well as his the allies and enemies kill each other with glee.

[Shiara]

DEFINITELY not a game for five-year-olds, but should certainly be fun for daddy

[amphibian]

 Aptorius, on 25 September 2012 - 05:01 AM, said:

While the game is funny and crazy and doesn't take itself too seriously, I am not sure the material is suitable for a 5 year old. There are stories of rape, torture and grizzly death every where. The protagonist as well as his the allies and enemies kill each other with glee.

Oh, bless you, Apt.

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[Aptorian]

No, no, I am sure there is a bear killing somebody in there in a bear like manner... surely.

[amphibian]

I think grizzly bears would do very well on Pandora. Maybe not the polar variety, but they'd jack the skags up pretty good and they do eat basically anything.

[Slow Ben]

Still havent beat this game yet. Its hard when you're playing through 4 characters, depending on which friends come over to play.


I'm not gonna commit yet until i finish the main story at least once, but this might be my favorite game. It'll be hard to pass the original KOTOR, but its probably gonna happen.

[Aptorian]

I think the game suffers from the shift from storyless action RPG to an attempt to be a story and character driven RPG shooter. It feels like it's trying but the guys that designed the story did either not have enough freedom or they just plain sucked. There's a lot of frustrating twists in the way they unfold the story in my opinion. Also there's a bunch of the later areas that I don't like very much (Screw you Eridium Blight).

In other news I recently learned about an exploit that allows me to cheese my way through the game if I so desire. The Gunzerkers dual wield ability has a bug that affects your damage output. If you equip a rocket launcer in your right hand and any random weapon with explosive damage in your left, then during gunzerker mode the left handed weapon will deal as much explosive damage as the rocket launcher. This means that when I equip a rocket launcher with 8000 damage, then my explosive assault riffle with high accuracy and output is dealing 8000 damage for every bullet I pump out. I tested it on a skag boss that I could hardly put a dent in. It went down in 5 seconds.

[amphibian]

There was a story in the first - not overtly shoved down your throat, but it was there. "The run of the mill bounty hunter levels up to become the Vault Opener on a very screwed up alien planet." The big bosses and DLCs even had their own mini-stories.

[Tapper]

 Aptorius, on 29 September 2012 - 03:35 AM, said:

I think the game suffers from the shift from storyless action RPG to an attempt to be a story and character driven RPG shooter. It feels like it's trying but the guys that designed the story did either not have enough freedom or they just plain sucked. There's a lot of frustrating twists in the way they unfold the story in my opinion. Also there's a bunch of the later areas that I don't like very much (Screw you Eridium Blight).

In other news I recently learned about an exploit that allows me to cheese my way through the game if I so desire. The Gunzerkers dual wield ability has a bug that affects your damage output. If you equip a rocket launcer in your right hand and any random weapon with explosive damage in your left, then during gunzerker mode the left handed weapon will deal as much explosive damage as the rocket launcher. This means that when I equip a rocket launcher with 8000 damage, then my explosive assault riffle with high accuracy and output is dealing 8000 damage for every bullet I pump out. I tested it on a skag boss that I could hardly put a dent in. It went down in 5 seconds.

Area-wise, I already detest the Thresher/little blink-invisibility buggers and, therefore, their entire area. To be randomly mobbed by a Badass Fire Thresher is no fun at all when your build is quite Fire orientated (whine whine whine whine on and equip Slag, Tapper).

[Aptorian]

 amphibian, on 29 September 2012 - 05:45 AM, said:

There was a story in the first - not overtly shoved down your throat, but it was there. "The run of the mill bounty hunter levels up to become the Vault Opener on a very screwed up alien planet." The big bosses and DLCs even had their own mini-stories.

Yeah, I recall. What bothers me though I think, is that the effort seems half-ass'ed. Either tell a proper character driven story or don't bother. Maybe its just the generic voiceless character that you play that is getting old to me but it seems strange to me that they seem to achknowledge that the first four characters had no story, so they add one in the sequel, but then don't bother giving the sequels characters a story. And no, those stupid echo recordings left here and there are not enough to flesh them out. I'm also somewhat disappointed that they haven't added any aliens or alien technology to this game. The alien encounters, along with the Crimson Guard fights, were my favorite in the first game.

On another note. How often are you people finding E-tech weapons? I encountered one during that first mission from Zed and I don't think I've seen a proper e-type weapon since.

EDIT: Also just found out you can't hold more than 99 eridium bars. Sort of annoying. I wish I could put them in the shared bank for the other characters.

This post has been edited by Aptorius: 30 September 2012 - 10:17 AM

[Tapper]

@ Apt: Found 1 electric Eridium sniper rifle so far, but it had a fairly high recoil and due to the low bullet speed, it was kind of shitty after the first shot.

Regarding the backstory: I don't really mind the lack of it, and what little there is, doesn't really suit the game so much. The tablets that give peeks in the lives of certain NPCs/ random people are well done, because they are so short. Backfires on yourself, really.

Just got my first legendary, Jakob sniper rifle with an insane +crit damage % bonus, but otherwise not truly remarkable. Also, was Bloodwing the easiest boss ever in terms of avoiding getting hit or was I extraordinarily lucky?

[Aptorian]

Finished the game earlier. Then ran back and killed the end boss one more time to see if I got some better loot.

Spoiler

Rather underwhelming. The Jack fight was more fun and challenging than fighting the warrior. It wasn't as bad as the end of Borderlands but I am still surprised at how bad the buil-up to the finale is. There's no broader scope to Jacks ambitions, no grand design to Hyperions presence, no deeper meaning to the game other than stopping Jack. The game is certainly an improvement over the original in every conceivable way but my god is the story lacking in this game.

There's so many questions that they don't bother answering. How did Jack come to power? (those echo's did not explain it properly), why does he wear a mask? Why is he such a magnificent asshole? Who or what are the Sirens? Why is there never more than 6 of them at one time? How did mankind come to colonize 6 galaxies yet it's still driven by corporations? Who or what are the Iridians? Why did they build vaults? What was the purpose of spreading Eridium across the planet? What was the purpose of the warrior? Etc., etc.

Storytelling really is my main frustration with modern videogames. They've come so far and the gameplay and graphics are so amazing and yet they continue to ignore the importance of a solid story.

Hopefully they will give us some more information in the DLC but that is not much of a conciliation. If we don't get to go to the moon and the Hyperion space station in some of the DLC I will be sorely disappointed.

This post has been edited by Aptorius: 30 September 2012 - 03:21 PM

[Slow Ben]

Aptorius said:

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Finished the game earlier. Then ran back and killed the end boss one more time to see if I got some better

Spoiler

There's so many questions that they don't bother answering. How did Jack come to power? (those echo's did not explain it properly), why does he wear a mask? Why is he such a magnificent asshole? Who or what are the Sirens? Why is there never more than 6 of them at one time? How did mankind come to colonize 6 galaxies yet it's still driven by corporations? Who or what are the Iridians? Why did they build vaults? What was the purpose of spreading Eridium across the planet? What was the purpose of the warrior? .

You sure you're a Malazan fan?

I just must expect different things than you. I don't care that the story isn't that great, it didn't bother me in the first either. I always value enjoyable gameplay over a story. And tbh i dont expect it in BLI love the gameplay, the comedy and the endless search for a better gun.

[MTS]

Holy shitballs, this game is awesome. I'm having so much fun, though I'm level 20 and haven't yet found any Legendary weapons. Haven't seen Michael yet either, and I was looking in all the places he's supposed to spawn.

Spoiler

Wilhelm was supposed to drop a Legendary, but I couldn't find it.

Originally started as Siren, but then my save glitched and I was predominantly using sniper rifles so I decided to go Assassin the second go around. I quite like the Deception skill, but I prefer Phaselock, and it's way cooler than the Phasewalk from the first game. Gonna have a go at Commando and Gunzerker when I finish the game.

I quite like the story personally, but neither do I think it's all that much of a step up from the first game. They could do better, yes, and Apt raises some good points in his last post, but honestly? I'm not playing this game for the story. Normally the lack of it would bother me, like it did in Far Cry 2, but I think the comedy makes up for it. It's only in Rockstar games previously that I've actually laughed out loud, but I've done so several times while playing this game.

[Slow Ben]

Regarding your spoiler. All bosses have a certain legendary they have a higher rate of dropping, but it's still low and not a guaranteed drop.

[MTS]

Yeah I figured as much.

After finishing a trek through the Caustic Caverns, threshers are hands down the most annoying enemy I've ever faced.

[Slow Ben]

Cracked.com article about Borderlands 2.


http://www.cracked.c...a_ibsrc=fanpage

[Slow Ben]

Also, an fyi to anyone who cares. If you follow Gearbox on Twitter. They randomly tweet codes you can put in in the Extras section on your main game page. It gives you a gold key so you can open the gold chest in sanctuary. Its alway a purple item and is your level.

They're going to tweet 5-6 in the next couple days.

Stay classy Malazans.